Cell Phones in Great Britain

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Three WePay

Theo Markettos

2008-02-17, 12:34 pm

I've been thinking about getting a Three PAYG SIM. It seems like WePay is
not available for new customers after October 2007, but it might be the
better tariff for me. I was wondering if there's any way to get on that
tariff. If I bought an old SIM pack from eBay, would that work or would I
be put on the new rate Flat12 when I registered? Or would there be any
pitfalls in buying a SIM that had already been used by someone (I'd port in
a number) - would they let me do it?

Does anyone know if there's a difference between normal Three SIMs and HSDPA
SIMs?

Thanks
Theo

andy

2008-02-18, 4:33 am

On 17 Feb, 18:06, Theo Markettos <theom+n...@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
wrote:
> I've been thinking about getting a Three PAYG SIM. =A0It seems like WePay =
is
> not available for new customers after October 2007, but it might be the
> better tariff for me. =A0I was wondering if there's any way to get on that=

> tariff. =A0If I bought an old SIM pack from eBay, would that work or would=
I
> be put on the new rate Flat12 when I registered? =A0Or would there be any
> pitfalls in buying a SIM that had already been used by someone (I'd port i=
n
> a number) - would they let me do it?
>
> Does anyone know if there's a difference between normal Three SIMs and HSD=
PA
> SIMs?
>
> Thanks
> Theo

I suspect there won't be any new connections to the tariff, and the
date might be longer ago than you mention. I'd be wary of old SIMs
that might have a limited shelf-life if not activated; I don't know
about on 3, but on some of the others, this is somewhere between 3 and
12 months.

So you might have to try and find a secondhand one to transfer. I
don't know how easy this would be, but in your favour is that the SIMs
don't seem to expire if not used for a while.

Theo Markettos

2008-02-18, 7:34 am

andy <andy.ggrps@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I suspect there won't be any new connections to the tariff, and the
> date might be longer ago than you mention. I'd be wary of old SIMs
> that might have a limited shelf-life if not activated; I don't know
> about on 3, but on some of the others, this is somewhere between 3 and
> 12 months.

Thanks. I didn't realise unopened SIM packs would expire. I tried an old
O2 SIM yesterday, which had been put in a phone about a year ago but never
used/registered and that failed to register, so either the act of merely
putting it in a phone caused the clock to start or that O2 expire their SIM
packs.

(I want a number on O2 or Tesco to port to Three - anyone know if they're
sniffy about porting out a number from a brand new SIM? Do you have to
credit it before you can port out?)

> So you might have to try and find a secondhand one to transfer. I
> don't know how easy this would be, but in your favour is that the SIMs
> don't seem to expire if not used for a while.

I might do that. Though having looked at the detail of how WePay credits
work it's not such a good deal for my usage - I might stick with Flat12
after all.

Theo

andy

2008-02-19, 10:33 pm

On 18 Feb, 11:37, Theo Markettos <theom+n...@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
wrote:
> andy <andy.gg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks. =A0I didn't realise unopened SIM packs would expire. =A0I tried an=
old
> O2 SIM yesterday, which had been put in a phone about a year ago but never=

> used/registered and that failed to register, so either the act of merely
> putting it in a phone caused the clock to start or that O2 expire their SI=
M
> packs.
>
> (I want a number on O2 or Tesco to port to Three - anyone know if they're
> sniffy about porting out a number from a brand new SIM? =A0Do you have to
> credit it before you can port out?)
>
>
> I might do that. =A0Though having looked at the detail of how WePay credit=
s
> work it's not such a good deal for my usage - I might stick with Flat12
> after all.
>
> Theo

Yes, I got slightly misleading info when I queried it at the start

When you have WePay credit, it gets used first, but then base credit
of a certain month gets used before the next month's WePay

Thus you have to top up at least every 60 days, and the ordinary
credit cannot be gradually accrued for a few months

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